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Solicitor joins board of language body
Mairead Ni Ghabhain (Pic: Matheson)

13 Sep 2024 / ireland Print

Solicitor joins board of language body

Solicitor Mairead Ni Ghabhain has been appointed to the board of the North South Language Body.

She is one of two Irish Government nominees to the body approved at a meeting of the North South Ministerial Council in Dublin today (13 September).

Irish-language broadcaster Gemma Ní Chionnaith was the other Government nominee to join the language body’s board.

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Ní Chionnaith and Ní Ghabháin have been appointed to the board of Foras na Gaeilge, one of the agencies of the North South Language Body, for a four-year term.

Ní Ghabháin is a partner at the law firm Matheson LLP, and qualified as a solicitor in 2011.

She attained a Higher Diploma in Lawyer-Linguistics and Legal Translation from the King’s Inns in 2011.

She has spent years as an instructor and examiner for the Law Society’s Irish-language courses. In 2014, she was appointed to the Irish Legal Terms Advisory Committee as the representative of the Law Society.

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